[melbourne-pug] raw string prob

[Maurice Ling]

Try
raw = r'J:\\'

In raw = r'J:\', the '\' escapes the close inverted comma, rendering an
unclosed string

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On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 12:30 PM, Mike Dewhirst <miked at dewhirst.com.au>wrote:

> Can anyone please explain tyhis for me?
>
> Python 2.6.4 (r264:75708, Oct 26 2009, 08:23:19) [MSC v.1500 32 bit
> (Intel)] on win32
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> >>> raw = r'J:\'
>  File "<stdin>", line 1
>    raw = r'J:\'
>               ^
> SyntaxError: EOL while scanning string literal
> >>>
>
> Thanks
>
> Mike
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